First, you're not changing the functionality of the JVC unit. You're merely changing the case. It still works the exact same way JVC designed, and using only their electronics.
And second, you're not starting up a production line and redistributing your redesigned JVC head unit.
Thus, it is not EXACTLY what Debian and Ubuntu do to Firefox. They alter the functionality (and its irrelevant whether or not its an improvement) and then redistribute it. Is it fair for the Firefox people to have to take the heat, the blame, and the damage to their brand image if Debian or Ubuntu fuck it up?
You can be interested all you want. But you cannot base your verdict on what you think about case law. All you are allowed to base a verdict on is the information presented in the courtroom.
As for blocking people off from "information" while on jury duty, the threat of a few days in jail if caught will take care of that.
All parties in a court action, whether it be civil or criminal, deserve a fair, impartial, and unbiased jury. Were it you in the courtroom I'm sure you'd demand no less for yourself. And I'd also be willing to bet that were I serving on your jury, you'd prefer I not get my information about you and your case from Wikipedia.
IANAL yadda yadda yadda, but I've served on 6 juries to date. And an instruction that was emphasized repeatedly by the judges in every case was "do not talk about the case outside of the jury room until the case is over". (Note: At least in my part of Indiana, jurors are allowed to discuss the case *amongst themselves* during all phases of the trial (except, obviously, when court is in active session), provided they do not attempt to come to a verdict before the official deliberation phase of the trial, and *all* members of the jury must be at least listening to any discussion, even if not actively participating.)
If this guy twittered after the trial was over and the verdict had been delivered, then I see no problems. But if he was broadcasting before the verdict was handed down by the judge, then I think there are indeed grounds for a mistrial...and Mr. Bigmouth Juror should get a few days in jail himself to think about his actions.
And were you on the losing side, I'd be willing to bet each and every one of you would be fighting for a mistrial on the same grounds.
What would I do? I'd start by doing what the boss says. This is a really bad time to have to look for employment elsewhere. If you don't do what the boss says, customers of your former employer are not going to start sending you money to live on because you did the "right" thing but lost your job.
Then after things have been at least temporarily taken care of, research better alternatives and present them to your boss.
And it sounds like you've never had to pay for things like bandwidth and server space out of your own pocket. Maybe he wants to keep it small because that's what he can afford. Information may want to be free, but the infrastructure to host it never is.
>his statement was an hyperbole meant to poke fun of Windows Vista
That may be what he intended, but what it comes across as is yet another knee-jerk hillbilly comment about Vista from somebody who probably never runs it, or runs it very little. It was possibly funny maybe the first 27000 times someone in Slashdot said something like that, but now its just silly and childish, and rapidly diminishes my interest in anything else the author had to say.
Had this been an identical product with identical features and identical marketing, but developed and released by Apple, Slashdot would be hailing it as a masterpiece and a "must have" application.
And Timothy...apparently you didn't get the memo...Bill Gates has not actively worked at Microsoft in some time now. So maybe you could shitcan the sensationalistic and anti-Gates titles, ya think?
Besides losing customers, if ISPs start policing their networks like that, don't they then give up some of their "safe haven" protections and all that?
What the hell, I got karma out the ass, so I'll answer your question.
Slashdot continues to moan because the average commenter has neither ran the beta or used Vista for longer than 5 minutes. Its more fun to bitch about Microsoft than to actually use the product.
Its also fun to sit and read some of the bitch comments and see how many Slashdotters overlooked the "beta" part, bitch about missing features, and apparently thought they were downloading the final RTM code.
I've never had a lick of trouble running Vista. Nor have I had a lick of trouble in the two weeks I've been running this beta. But then I made sure to put it on a modern PC built with Vista in mind, not my grandfather's Packard-Bell 486 with 4 meg of ram.
Slashdot is really slow to the story here,and in fact it was settled out of court before the story even made it up.
I'll admit I can't remember what specific crime the writer used, but I read in a number of places that he did indeed accuse the chiropractor of criminal acts. I believe the word "thief" was used several times.
Posting somewhere that "So-and-so chiropractor sucks at his job!" is one thing. But calling him by name and a thief is a textbook example of defamation.
And I'm sure that distinction will be lost on 90 percent of the Slashdot audience, who only see what they think is "OMFG censorship!!!!!!11111oneoneone".
I own a few servers, and both sell hosting to paying customers, and give free hosting to some friends.
I try to always keep everyone informed on what's going on. Last time I upgraded one server to a newer model, I gave everyone on that server 4 months notice and kept the old server running for 2 more months after the new server was up and in regular service. And I keep meticulous daily backups, and have been known to mail DVDs of their own data to those who ask for them, even for those who host on my servers for free.
But on a free service, people, you don't have "rights" to "demand" jack shit. If you don't like my terms for free hosting, then shuffle your cheap ass off to another host. Web hosting is one of those services where you get what you pay for. If you want guarantees and a formal policy, then you're going to give me some of those little American government generated pictures of dead presidents in return.
It never ceases to amaze me how people with no financial investment or payments at stake are so readily willing to tell equipment owners what to do. And because of them, I'm just as readily willing to tell freeloaders to kiss my web hosting ass.
Its not only "probably illegal", in most places in the US its very illegal. The cord used to back-feed a house that way is referred to as a "dead man cord". The reason for that is because besides back-feeding your house, if you don't throw a transfer switch you are also back-feeding part of your neighborhood's wiring. This will make the linemen who are repairing that wiring at the least very unhappy, and in all likelihood it will make them very dead.
I'm not ready to dump it (yet, anyway), but I've gotta agree with you on the DJs. And that shit started as soon as the decades channels and several others got Sirius jocks running things. It happened before with the XM DJs, but its magnitudes worse now.
I thank the spirits for Blues on XM and Bill Wax...almost everything he says is pertinent to the blues, you get a history lesson about the music, and, most importantly, he rarely, if ever, runs his mouth during the music.
The problem is, believe it or not, some bright genius (or group of them) at NASA decided that, once upon a time, a large quantity of the documentation for Apollo was not worth saving. Documentation for many assemblies has been lost, as have many of the men and women who built them.
Even if reams of accurate information could be decoded right now, I don't see how this could be considered an "invasion of privacy" when the individuals signing up for it are willingly giving permission for all this info to be posted about them. And as TFA states (yeah, I know, I wasn't supposed to read it before commenting), the first 10 were specifically chosen to be people who understood the ramifications of having this info posted.
I stopped using it after the first day. Why? Because it had more bugs than an effing Roach Motel and it kept crashing all together every 4th page...at least Firefox is down to where it only crashes maybe once a week. Plus I didn't see any evidence of this superfantasticohmygodgeewhiz speed increase that everyone else seemed to be singing to the angels about.
At the end of the day, cool factor doesn't count for a hell of a lot with me if the damned thing won't work. If I wanted a browser I have to fight with I would have stayed with Internet Exploder.
No, because they would have likely lost the lawsuit and the judge would have done one of two things:
And neither of those results would cause a serious impact on Walmart's financial bottom line. Keeping the server up is probably cheaper, but even if they were forced to pay a cash award, it would still be pocket change relative to Walmart's sales and profits, even if its a multimillion dollar award. I stand by what I said before...they did it purely for PR.
Horse shit. Walmart spends more on toilet paper for their in-store restrooms in a month than a lawsuit over this would have cost them. Plus I'd be willing to bet that there is fine print in the user agreement for all those DRMed tracks somewhere that says words to the effect of "we can turn it off any time with a few days notice and its your problem not ours".
It probably really was customer feedback and the fact that this was making Walmart look bad. Bad press is far more damaging than some piddly ol' nickel and dime lawsuit.
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You're comparing apples to oranges.
First, you're not changing the functionality of the JVC unit. You're merely changing the case. It still works the exact same way JVC designed, and using only their electronics.
And second, you're not starting up a production line and redistributing your redesigned JVC head unit.
Thus, it is not EXACTLY what Debian and Ubuntu do to Firefox. They alter the functionality (and its irrelevant whether or not its an improvement) and then redistribute it. Is it fair for the Firefox people to have to take the heat, the blame, and the damage to their brand image if Debian or Ubuntu fuck it up?
Slashdot just totally jumped the shark with this one.
Hate to break your heart dude, but unlike this story the Ted Stevens story is *not* an April Fools Day joke.
I'd be very interested in the relevant case law
You can be interested all you want. But you cannot base your verdict on what you think about case law. All you are allowed to base a verdict on is the information presented in the courtroom.
As for blocking people off from "information" while on jury duty, the threat of a few days in jail if caught will take care of that.
All parties in a court action, whether it be civil or criminal, deserve a fair, impartial, and unbiased jury. Were it you in the courtroom I'm sure you'd demand no less for yourself. And I'd also be willing to bet that were I serving on your jury, you'd prefer I not get my information about you and your case from Wikipedia.
IANAL yadda yadda yadda, but I've served on 6 juries to date. And an instruction that was emphasized repeatedly by the judges in every case was "do not talk about the case outside of the jury room until the case is over". (Note: At least in my part of Indiana, jurors are allowed to discuss the case *amongst themselves* during all phases of the trial (except, obviously, when court is in active session), provided they do not attempt to come to a verdict before the official deliberation phase of the trial, and *all* members of the jury must be at least listening to any discussion, even if not actively participating.)
If this guy twittered after the trial was over and the verdict had been delivered, then I see no problems. But if he was broadcasting before the verdict was handed down by the judge, then I think there are indeed grounds for a mistrial...and Mr. Bigmouth Juror should get a few days in jail himself to think about his actions.
And were you on the losing side, I'd be willing to bet each and every one of you would be fighting for a mistrial on the same grounds.
What would I do? I'd start by doing what the boss says. This is a really bad time to have to look for employment elsewhere. If you don't do what the boss says, customers of your former employer are not going to start sending you money to live on because you did the "right" thing but lost your job.
Then after things have been at least temporarily taken care of, research better alternatives and present them to your boss.
And it sounds like you've never had to pay for things like bandwidth and server space out of your own pocket. Maybe he wants to keep it small because that's what he can afford. Information may want to be free, but the infrastructure to host it never is.
>his statement was an hyperbole meant to poke fun of Windows Vista
That may be what he intended, but what it comes across as is yet another knee-jerk hillbilly comment about Vista from somebody who probably never runs it, or runs it very little. It was possibly funny maybe the first 27000 times someone in Slashdot said something like that, but now its just silly and childish, and rapidly diminishes my interest in anything else the author had to say.
Had this been an identical product with identical features and identical marketing, but developed and released by Apple, Slashdot would be hailing it as a masterpiece and a "must have" application.
And Timothy...apparently you didn't get the memo...Bill Gates has not actively worked at Microsoft in some time now. So maybe you could shitcan the sensationalistic and anti-Gates titles, ya think?
Besides losing customers, if ISPs start policing their networks like that, don't they then give up some of their "safe haven" protections and all that?
What the hell, I got karma out the ass, so I'll answer your question.
Slashdot continues to moan because the average commenter has neither ran the beta or used Vista for longer than 5 minutes. Its more fun to bitch about Microsoft than to actually use the product.
Its also fun to sit and read some of the bitch comments and see how many Slashdotters overlooked the "beta" part, bitch about missing features, and apparently thought they were downloading the final RTM code.
I've never had a lick of trouble running Vista. Nor have I had a lick of trouble in the two weeks I've been running this beta. But then I made sure to put it on a modern PC built with Vista in mind, not my grandfather's Packard-Bell 486 with 4 meg of ram.
Slashdot is really slow to the story here,and in fact it was settled out of court before the story even made it up.
I'll admit I can't remember what specific crime the writer used, but I read in a number of places that he did indeed accuse the chiropractor of criminal acts. I believe the word "thief" was used several times.
Posting somewhere that "So-and-so chiropractor sucks at his job!" is one thing. But calling him by name and a thief is a textbook example of defamation.
And I'm sure that distinction will be lost on 90 percent of the Slashdot audience, who only see what they think is "OMFG censorship!!!!!!11111oneoneone".
All of my various memory cards and flash drives, when not actively in use in a device, reside in a giant coffee cup on my desk.
I own a few servers, and both sell hosting to paying customers, and give free hosting to some friends.
I try to always keep everyone informed on what's going on. Last time I upgraded one server to a newer model, I gave everyone on that server 4 months notice and kept the old server running for 2 more months after the new server was up and in regular service. And I keep meticulous daily backups, and have been known to mail DVDs of their own data to those who ask for them, even for those who host on my servers for free.
But on a free service, people, you don't have "rights" to "demand" jack shit. If you don't like my terms for free hosting, then shuffle your cheap ass off to another host. Web hosting is one of those services where you get what you pay for. If you want guarantees and a formal policy, then you're going to give me some of those little American government generated pictures of dead presidents in return.
It never ceases to amaze me how people with no financial investment or payments at stake are so readily willing to tell equipment owners what to do. And because of them, I'm just as readily willing to tell freeloaders to kiss my web hosting ass.
Damn...Obama hasn't even been sworn in yet and George W. Bush already has a job writing new laws in India...
Its not only "probably illegal", in most places in the US its very illegal. The cord used to back-feed a house that way is referred to as a "dead man cord". The reason for that is because besides back-feeding your house, if you don't throw a transfer switch you are also back-feeding part of your neighborhood's wiring. This will make the linemen who are repairing that wiring at the least very unhappy, and in all likelihood it will make them very dead.
I'm not ready to dump it (yet, anyway), but I've gotta agree with you on the DJs. And that shit started as soon as the decades channels and several others got Sirius jocks running things. It happened before with the XM DJs, but its magnitudes worse now.
I thank the spirits for Blues on XM and Bill Wax...almost everything he says is pertinent to the blues, you get a history lesson about the music, and, most importantly, he rarely, if ever, runs his mouth during the music.
The fact that Greenpeace comes down on Apple is a good reason for me to consider buying a new Macbook.
Damn! I was going to post that!!
The problem is, believe it or not, some bright genius (or group of them) at NASA decided that, once upon a time, a large quantity of the documentation for Apollo was not worth saving. Documentation for many assemblies has been lost, as have many of the men and women who built them.
Even if reams of accurate information could be decoded right now, I don't see how this could be considered an "invasion of privacy" when the individuals signing up for it are willingly giving permission for all this info to be posted about them. And as TFA states (yeah, I know, I wasn't supposed to read it before commenting), the first 10 were specifically chosen to be people who understood the ramifications of having this info posted.
I stopped using it after the first day. Why? Because it had more bugs than an effing Roach Motel and it kept crashing all together every 4th page...at least Firefox is down to where it only crashes maybe once a week. Plus I didn't see any evidence of this superfantasticohmygodgeewhiz speed increase that everyone else seemed to be singing to the angels about.
At the end of the day, cool factor doesn't count for a hell of a lot with me if the damned thing won't work. If I wanted a browser I have to fight with I would have stayed with Internet Exploder.
No, because they would have likely lost the lawsuit and the judge would have done one of two things:
And neither of those results would cause a serious impact on Walmart's financial bottom line. Keeping the server up is probably cheaper, but even if they were forced to pay a cash award, it would still be pocket change relative to Walmart's sales and profits, even if its a multimillion dollar award. I stand by what I said before...they did it purely for PR.
Horse shit. Walmart spends more on toilet paper for their in-store restrooms in a month than a lawsuit over this would have cost them. Plus I'd be willing to bet that there is fine print in the user agreement for all those DRMed tracks somewhere that says words to the effect of "we can turn it off any time with a few days notice and its your problem not ours".
It probably really was customer feedback and the fact that this was making Walmart look bad. Bad press is far more damaging than some piddly ol' nickel and dime lawsuit.
Actually, its 2009.0 that will be (or is at least scheduled to be) released in October. 2008.1 has been in release for some time now.